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A MS for Academy (you to do the best you can for it) should reach you with this.

Read it yourself-- as it is part of a Zoological subject.

But send a single line in a card to say whether the paper has reached you-- as I fear I directed it

Wallis

having a correspondent of that name.

Ever yours | R[obert]. G[ordon]. Latham1[signature]

Say, too, whether the note on “[prolific] [men]” appeared in Nature.

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1. Robert Gordon Latham (1812-1888). English ethnologist and philologist. He was professor of English Language and Literature at University College London from 1839-45. At the same time he developed a medical career (receiving his MD from Cambridge University in 1844). He was elected FRS in 1848. In 1863 he received a Civil List pension of £100. In 1866-70 he produced a new edition of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary

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